Norman Cousins

"A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life."

"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live."

"He who keeps his cool best wins."

"It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete."

"My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason."

"People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams."

"Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man."

"The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness."

"The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription."

"The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny."

"The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself."

"We will not have peace by afterthought."

"What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth."

"Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going."